Without a doubt the best ever football mascot in the English Premier League was Roary the Tiger. He has the ball skills of Pele and the fire in his belly of a real tiger but the cute looks that kids of all ages love...

With the Championship moving towards week three, the transfer window is starting to move at a fair trot. League leader Millwall, coming off the back of a four-nil thrashing of Hull City at the New Den, have extended the loan spell of Darren Carter...

Without a doubt the best ever football mascot in the English Premier League is Roary the Tiger.He has the ball skills of Pele with the fire in his belly of a real Tiger but the cute looks that kids of all ages love...

The 1992-1993 Hull City home shirt is possibly the greatest football shirt ever designed. It's a cornucopia of amber and black, delicately fused in a tiger skin motif to celebrate the Tiger's aggressive nature...

The Football League Championship is one of the toughest leagues in the world. Many teams have lost their position in the Premiership and thought that a swift return to the big time was on the cards, but have come down to earth with a very big bump...

The national image of Jimmy Bullard as the jocular funnyman of English football, is in wild contrast, and sitting at odds with the impression he is giving the management, board and the faithful of the Tiger-nation, in East Yorkshire...

With the German team two up against Australia in the second half of their group 'D' game, it is interesting to see just how composed they are on the ball? The Germans need a win to keep up with Ghana who beat Serbia by a single goal earlier in the day...

With all to play for in the important World Cup tie. England's Three Lions and the Yanks of U.S.A. certainly made a tie a great one, with both sides having great chances, but it was a tale of two goalkeepers as one shone and one stunk...

In 1950 the United States soccer team were not expected to do particularly well when they traveled down to Brazil to compete in the World Cup finals, in an attempt to lift the coveted Jules Rimet trophy...

Since 1992, FIFA has produced a ranking system to show who the best nations are in World Football. The ranking is a bone of contention for many who see it as nothing more than just a list for entertainment purposes...

With the World Cup less than a week away, I thought it would be a great time to look back at some of the great, the good, and the not so good fluff pieces that have been published in the run up to the big kickoff...

Since Nigeria won it's independence from Great Britain in 1960, the fledgling Super Eagles have gone from strength to strength. Nigeria waited until the '70s before clearly putting their footballing credentials on the map...

I know that some will say that my dislike of the Premier League is just sour grapes because the Tigers have just officially got an (R) next to their name on the league table, denoting 'relegated,' but they would be wrong...